Celebrating NASA’s historic return to the moon, we welcome Fratello’s THE LUNAR line of limited edition cigars. Fratello founder, Omar de Frias, is a former NASA project manager. When Intuitive Machines, a leading participant in the NOVA-C Lunar Lander project, approached de Frias about creating a special cigar that commemorates the NOVA-C launch, Fratello was more than willing to take…
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La Palina Double Digit
Double Digit is La Palina’s value-priced entry into the uber-large ring gauge category. It’s a full-bodied stick that features a dark, oily Ecuadorian Maduro wrapper with a binder of undisclosed origin and a blended filler made of Dominican and Nicaraguan tobaccos… READ MORE >>> ***
2017 Quesada Oktoberfest
Category 5 Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Crazy North Koreans and a American political environment that is on the edge of the abyss. The world we live in every day seems like a surreal dream / nightmare that’s getting more and more chaotic, Germany’s 145 year old Oktoberfest is a welcomed annual fifteen day party celebrating beer, food and fun! Oktoberfest is one of…
La Aurora ADN Dominicano Blending Seminar — Friday, August 18, 2017 6 PM to 9 PM
La Aurora’s Master Blender, Manuel Inoa will be joining us here at Chesapeake Pipe & Cigar, Friday, August 18, 2017 from 6 PM till 9 PM. During his brief time with us, Manuel will be introducing us to his new signature ADN Dominicano Blending Seminar. ADN (which is DNA in Spanish,) Dominicano begins with tobacco fermented in an extremely rare…
UPCOMING RELEASES FROM MIAMI CIGAR & LA AURORA
Miami Cigar / La Aurora has released a Cameroon wrapped cigar in their value priced Time Capsule Series. This blend commemorates the year La Aurora opened — 1903. The 1903 Cameroon joins the 1987 Connecticut and 1962 Corojo. Several months ago, I got to sample a La Aurora cigar that really wasn’t on their US product release schedule for 2017.…
NEW! La Aurora 1961 & 1987
La Aurora, the Dominican Republic’s oldest cigar factory, has just released two new cigars that we’re very excited about — La Aurora 1961 and La Aurora 1987. La Aurora 1961 The 1961 features a Dominican corojo wrapper over an Ecuadorian binder and fillers from the Cibao Valley in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. These tobaccos come together to produce a…